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(try and go for blight resistant varieties), lettuce and runner beans (but being sure you have slug and snail protection). Also, courgettes are relatively easy and you only need 2 or 3 plants to keep you going through the summer. Finally, spinach

huge and green and some have dark patches, but before turning red they rot. Please can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Can I recommend Tomatoberry, small uniform, perfectly formed baby tomatoes with delicious sweet flavour. Marmande excellent

(inches thick) and they are good to use. If you buy five of them they will make two 16ft beds. Cost about 36 euros per bed. Jangra - I'd use untreated timber. It will last for a long time anyway, and you can always replace it when it does rot. Treated

over them when indeed they grow! But the next challenge is a wheelbarrow. It was on the side of the road so he knocked on the door and asked for it. It's an old fashioned heavy envelope sided one. Concrete type wheel. It's handled are rusty and rotted

plant yellow and green courgettes, squashes of various shapes and sizes, sugar peas, peppers and even aubergines. Four groups of marigolds to deter pests, dark kale pants round the beans and many other unusual varieties were of great interest throughout

carpet and certainly not rubber backed ones as they don't rot down well. Have fun. I am a new allotment holder,its was a very neglected patch. i am slowly winning the battle. my main problem is a large neglected plum tree that was full of very small

should be planted out singly? not in the clumps they came in when I bought the seedling box.... How will I fit all those leeks in my itsy bitsy bed? The other bed has some beetroot seeds, some thyme and space for the courgettes I'm growing from seed

with my friend and got some seed compost also some general potting compost 4 bags for £10.00,  it's nice stuff much better than B+Q's Verve as that has gone all twiggy sort of not rotted down properly so just need some warmer weather now so I can set some

spotted and then they go black. Then the fruit showed the same black blotches. I think the disease came from my courgettes. Now my ten Gardeners Delight tomatoes are showing early signs of the same problem. Can I treat them with anything to save them - I

allotment and we double dug the bed and cleared the dandelions from it, adding well rotted horse manure before planting). Do I need to remove all the soil, or will I be able to grow runner beans there in future years after crop rotation? What other veg